Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Richard M. Stallman writes:
 >     The alternative would be to simply declare that Rmail/mbox will *only*
 >     handle multipart and text/plain media, and ignore all the rest.  But
 >     that seems a shame when Emacs is quite capable of handling a wide
 >     variety of media types, including text/html, text/rich-text, image,
 >     audio, and even video (at least with the help of external players).
 > 
 > I am still lost.  You seem to allude to some difference between
 > text/plain and text/html which I am not aware of.

It's the same difference as between text/plain and any of the other
media types mentioned: you will cannot preserve all the information in
a text/html part while saving it in mbox format.

Rmail/mbox must be prepared to decode a message each time it is
presented.